Amorphous palladium-based alloy nanoparticles as highly active electrocatalysts for ethanol oxidation.

Amorphous Pd-P metal-metalloid alloy nanoparticles showed a higher electrochemical ethanol oxidation reaction performance than crystalline Pd nanoparticles. The high performance was attributed to the rich defective coordination unsaturated sites and the P alloying, which enhanced the OH adsorption.